What happens when two identical one-sided objects are merged in space?

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The discussion centers on the merging of two identical one-sided objects, specifically Moebius strips, and the implications of such an operation. The concept leads to the exploration of the Klein bottle, a non-orientable surface that cannot be embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space without self-intersection. Participants analyze whether merging two identical Moebius strips results in a valid geometric object and how this relates to cutting a Moebius strip in half, which yields two separate strips.

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I'm not an expert in any field but i got this thought of merging two Moebius strips togheter the same way as merging one side of a square with another side of a square resulting in a rectangle.
Now the logic being that 1 side is subtracted(is it still a merge?) from Object A and object B what happens when i merge(?) two objects that are one-sided, are identical and in the same position in space to each other. How does the existens of such a object look like.
 
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If you instead cut a Moebius strip in half which is the inverse of your suggested operation, what do you get?
 

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